25 million people. That’s one in three women and people with birthing
capacity of reproductive age whose state has outlawed abortion under all
circumstances.
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Dear Friend,
Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade took
effect, we’ve been doing everything we can to secure our reproductive
rights for every single person, in every single state. Their decision
reversed our right at the national level to choose when, and if, we want
to have children and threw that power to the states. At this moment, we
need everyone’s voice, including yours!
[ [link removed] ]→ Here’s what we need from you: Sign our letter to the President and
his Administration urging them to continue to rapidly move forward
executive actions that help protect our reproductive rights and public
safety.
Here is our list of emergency priorities:
* Utilize available public health and disaster authorities, including
but not limited to declaring a national emergency and a public health
emergency. We are in solidarity with calls by Congresswoman Pressley
[1] and Black women leaders in Congress that the time is now to
utilize all emergency authorities as abortion clinics close. We must
communicate to the public how dire the situation is and this would,
first and foremost, treat this crisis like the public health [ [link removed] ]
emergency that it is.
* Defend and expand abortion coverage and affordability.
* Appoint judges who will defend abortion, democracy, and LGBTQIA+ human
rights. In this moment of intense threat, we need judges who will
halt, not deepen the attacks our communities are facing.
* Ensure immigrants can access abortion care without fear of
deportation, detention, or criminalization. Not only is detention
unsafe and inhumane for pregnant, postpartum, and nursing people, but
as states ban abortion at the earliest stages of pregnancy, it is
imperative that people who are seeking this time-sensitive medical
care are free to access it as quickly as possible.
* Stop the criminalization of pregnancy outcomes, miscarriage, and
self-managed abortion. We are concerned that the overturning of Roe
and Casey will compound the ongoing criminalization of women and
birthing people, especially Black people, as well as immigrants
seeking basic reproductive health care, including abortion care and
IVF services and urge the Administration to explore robust strategies
to stop this harmful misuse of the law. According to the National
Advocates for Pregnant Women, the past 15 years have seen a shocking
increase in arrests and prosecutions for crimes related to
stillbirths, miscarriages, and alleged drug and alcohol use during
pregnancy, especially among low-income and Black people.
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As we appreciate and applaud President Biden’s Executive Orders [ [link removed] ] so
far to defend reproductive rights; we also know they are the starting
first steps of many steps to come. As activists, advocates, and people who
love someone who may one day need an abortion, it is critical that the
Administration immediately add o his action planto further protect our
reproductive rights.
This is a big deal. It’s an important moment in history where our
sustained engagement is going to be needed because while the actions the
President takes can help, the President of course can’t solve this crisis
alone: It’s going to take a combination of national legislation which
Congress must pass, work at the state level, Presidential action, and
ongoing engagement to restore our reproductive rights. (And we’re
committed to keeping in touch with you and letting you know how to lend a
hand along the way).
Our voices, our power, our work is important. Millions of women will be,
at some point, impacted by this tortuous U.S. Supreme Court decision and
as I write this email, thousands of people are currently living in the
consequential realities of a post-Roe society. The burdens that folks are
forced to face at this very moment are endless and expand far beyond
denying our rights to make decisions about our bodily autonomy. Financial,
physical and virtual safety, immigration protections, and privacy rights
have been or are in threat of being stripped away from us as well. All
people deserve access to abortion care when they need it, on the timeline
they choose, and in the community they trust.
[3]Sign our letter to President Biden urging him to continue to move
swiftly to protect our rights by adding our list of demands to his
reproductive care action plan. Lives are on the line.
- Diarra, Tina, Monifa, Kristin, and the whole MomsRising.org &
MamásConPoder Team
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